linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 7/7] KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting

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Date:   Tue, 1 Nov 2016 23:51:46 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>,
        Robert O'Callahan <robert@...llahan.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@...tuozzo.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 7/7] KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting



On 01/11/2016 19:33, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
>>
>>> +	vcpu->arch.cpuid_fault = false;
>>
>> This should be conditional on "if (!init_event)".  Most MSRs are untouched
>> on an INIT IPI.
>>
>> Otherwise looks good.  The patch is independent of the rest, so I would
>> prefer to take it through the KVM tree.
>>
> 
> It depends on the FEATURE_ENABLES MSR define, which is part of that series.

Sure, I usually time my pull request anyway so that generic arch stuff
goes in first (KVM comes after architectures in linux-next, too).  If
only the first 6 patches are included in tip, I can handle the seventh
myself.

Paolo